A Midget versus a Klepto Monkey

[Zeta]

http://www.ntv.co.jp/lupin-conan/

You may now commence your fangasms.

Ugh, I just realized the awful slash fiction that is going to result from this.

[Dr. BUGMAN]

I thought this thread was about Mario Vs. Donkey Kong.

[Cuckooguy]

I bet my boogers that they'll work together to bring down a greater evil in the end.

[Isuka]

If it wasn't for the fact that Arsène's grandson is essentially replacing Kaito Kuroba... but yeah, it's nice and has easily wasted potential.

[Kogen]

I thought it was going to be real.

Disappointed.

[j-man]

Sorry, what's happening?

[Neo]

Without clicking the link, I imagine it's some sort of Lupin III and Detective Conan crossover.

I'm indifferent.

[j-man]

I don't know what a detective conan is, nor do I speak hapanese. Anything with Lupin in (ininin) has to be good, though.

[Kogen]

I heard they will be putting Inspector Gadget with Scruff McGruff too. Epic times we live in.

[P.P.A.]

Sounds awesome.
I didn't follow Detective Conan all the way through. Did he still not turn back into Shinichi? After what, 400 manga volumes?

[Zeta]

I don't know what a detective conan is, nor do I speak hapanese. Anything with Lupin in (ininin) has to be good, though.

A 16-year old genius detective is turned into an 8-year old with a magic pill and he has to solve murders via making his stupid girlfriend's father look like a genius and trying not to commit reverse pedophilia on his 16-year old girlfriend who has adopted him thinking he's an orphan. His bowtie, glasses, and shoes are all super spy gadgets, too.

Only in Japan!

[j-man]

It sounds grotesque. I'm just throwing that out there.

[Dr. Watson]

I heard they will be putting Inspector Gadget with Scruff McGruff too. Epic times we live in.

Sorry to off-topicifie this thread so quickly, but speaking of Inspector Gadget; Go Go Gadget Copy-Paste:

A brand new cartoon series of "Inspector Gadget" episodes has recently been rumoured at the J. E. Daniels Blogspot, which wrote on May 5, 2008, that "According to the current issue of Animation Magazine, DIC Entertainment is going to be reviving their bionic crime fighter for a brand new show to premier in early 2009. (...) The new show will have many of the original characters intact such as Penny, Brain, Chief Quimby and Dr. Claw. Complete with klutz comedy but with more of a darker edge. The series will have a design style that will lean more towards anime and the direction will be more cinematic with unique camera angles and dramatic musical cues." J. E. Daniels ends his blogspot by saying that 52 episodes of this new series will start their television run in the spring of 2009.

(straight from the source of all truth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_ ... carnations)

[CM August]

The series will have a design style that will lean more towards anime

;_;

Not that they didn't already wreck the designs in previous incarnations, but...

[Wombatwarlord777]

blahblahblah... Complete with klutz comedy but with more of a darker edge. The series will have a design style that will lean more towards anime... blahblahdurpity

Honestly, Instector Gadget would probably look really slick as an anime, but I'm more hesitant to approve the whole "darker edge" concept. I mean, Inspector Gadget is a pretty ridiculous and surreal character as it is, so doesn't he kinda clash with a more serious atmosphere? There was a such a problem with the first live-action Inspector Gadget movie. In one scene, Gadget was almost completely destroyed by the villian and tossed in a landfill for dead. Meanwhile, his evil doppelganger rampages through the town and sets everything ablaze. The story seems, well... wrong to be this dark, especially since I was exposed to the more light-hearted animated series earlier. No, Inspector Gadget doesn't need an "edge". He needs to be silly.

It makes about as much sense as taking a cute woodland critter, and giving him guns and armored vehicles and ties with aliens and the ability to destroy the planet. Nobody would be so crazy to do such a thing!

[j-man]

more of a darker edge.

They're raping my childhood noooooooo etc

[Zeta]

I thought Inspector Gadget WAS an anime. Just look at Penny.

[Dr. Watson]

I think this new Gadget has potential. When i picture it, i imagine some Powerpuff Girls/Kim Possible-esque comedy-action toon.

[CM August]

I thought Inspector Gadget WAS an anime. Just look at Penny.

Naturally it had slight anime touches even in the beginning (along with a slew of other 80s shows), but it holds a different meaning today where companies use the word 'anime' in their marketing pitch - usually codeword for 'stylized', garish, poorly-drawn swill. Much as Penny's later designs turned out to be.

[Green Gibbon!]

I'm pretty sure most of the original Gadget animation was done in Japan, like alot of 80's cartoons.

[Malchik]

Written and produced at DIC media U.S and animated jointly at Japan and Taiwan. Of course every cartoon of the eighties and early nineties were sweatshop animated.

[Rob-Bert]

Did they outsource it to Toei? It was probably Toei.

[G.Silver]

The big rumor I heard regarding Inspector Gadget was that the guy who does Steam Detectives had a hand in the character designs, but maybe that's completely wrong and he just drew some inspiration from it. The main thing is, there's a character in it who looks just like him.

Ahh

http://www.ex.org/3.6/11-feature_asamiya1.html

Apparently he was an inbetweener on Inspector Gadget.

[Ritz]

Hearing "Inspector Gadget", "anime" and "darker edge" would typically be enough to launch me into an impressive fit of rage, but if it's anything at all like this, I don't think anyone is going to complain. But it won't be, so I'm just going to play it safe and hope that the themesong isn't rap or similar such bullshit and draw my expectations there.

And hey, speaking of dredging up franchises over a decade old and cosmetically daubing them with fecal matter, Nicktoons does Ape Escape. I need someone to cry over this with. Gibbs? Anyone?

[Crazy Penguin]

The new Inspector Gadget sounds like it'll be significantly more tolerable than Gadget and the Gadgetinis.